Short-term Rental
On a Friday in March, cars with out-of-state plates lined Covington Dr. as people set up lights...
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News
Back to School II
At the end of an emotional five-and-a-half-hour meeting in February, the Ann Arbor Board of...
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Elections Have Consequences
Last November’s election of five new members profoundly transformed city council. In place...
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The Pandemic Year
Michigan reported its first case of Covid-19 on March 10, 2020. News of the first infection in...
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Urban Mining
That’s local attorney Peter Davis describing his daughter’s discovery that her 2007...
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Used Cars Are Suddenly Hot
In the past year, Ann Arbor lost car dealerships selling two European brands. They’ve been...
Read MoreBack to School
The “in-school hybrid learning option” AAPS announced in mid-‘January will offer two days of in-person instruction per week, along with two days of online instruction and one of “asynchronous”...
Read MoreMore Pressure to Re-open Schools
Supporters of school reopening ramped up pressure on the AAPS in February, with psychologists joining physicians in calling for classes to resume by March 1, as recommended by Governor Whitmer. In January, the district announced...
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Crime and Punishment
That’s Cox’s explanation for a startling drop in crime during the last ten months of...
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Nightmare at the Psych ER
I lived through a nightmare at the U-M Psychiatric Emergency Room. The pandemic made it worse, but...
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Passionate Prosecutor
“A punishment-oriented approach does not work,” declares Eli Savit, who takes office...
Read MoreWashtenaw’s Election Audit
Hours before his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to stop Congress from certifying his defeat, President Trump claimed that he had actually won in a “landslide.” Even after the riot, seven senators...
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Turning Point
In the first two weeks of the month, the novel coronavirus killed twenty people in Washtenaw...
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Harbaugh Headache
After a string of crushing defeats, the U-M’s head football coach is staring down one of the...
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Therapist Barred
“We count on our licensees to interact with the public with honesty and integrity,”...
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Election Notes
“We had reports of lines at seven o’clock in the morning,” says Washtenaw...
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Faster Testing
In February, the leaders of NeuMoDx Molecular Systems realized that a global pandemic was...
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Home. School.
In March, my second grader and I cleared out his cubby at Dexter’s Beacon Elementary. I knew...
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Tunnel Visions
As Ann Arbor’s $9.4 million flood mitigation/nonmotorized trail tunnels near completion,...
Read MoreAsk a2view
Q. Why were the fifteen or so parking places along the east wall of the downtown post office reassigned to government workers? Do they realize what a hassle this will be for the tax-paying public come Christmas?A. The downtown...
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